R J Dent
R J Dent is a translator based in the United kingdon. See below some of his translation work on our site and his own.
Translations on Listen to Poetry..
Other translations..

The Songs of Maldoror - by Le Comte de Lautréamont
‘A new, definitive edition of Lautréamont’s influential masterpiece. Vividly translated by R J Dent.’
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The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
‘Baudelaire was the first incarnation of the modern mind…’
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Alcaeus's Poems & Fragments into English.
R J Dent’s sensitive modern English translation of the complete Poems & Fragments of Alcaeus is now available in paperback and e-book formats from Circaidy Gregory Press
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R J Dent
is an English translator of European literature.
He has translated Le Comte de Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror, Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, and Alcaeus’s Poems & Fragments into English.
He has also translated key texts by the Marquis de Sade, Maurice Rollinat, Maurice Heine, Louis Aragon, Paula Maxa, Paul Eluard, Ibycus and Sappho.
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